| Taiwania 台灣杉 | |
| Introduced: | 9 May 2018 |
| Cost: | at least NT$430 million |
| Type: | supercomputer |
| Memory: | depends on system |
| Connection: | NVIDIA Mellanox Interconnection |
| Speed: | Taiwania 1:1.33 quadrillion FLOPS Taiwania 2:9 quadrillion FLOPS Taiwania 3:2.7 quadrillion FLOPS |
Taiwania is a supercomputer series in Taiwan owned by the National Applied Research Laboratories.[1]
The supercomputer was activated on 9 May 2018 after a two-year program to establish it with a cost of NT$430 million.[1]
In April 2023, it was unveiled that Taiwania 1 itself will be retired and replaced by Taiwania 4.
The Taiwania 1 Supercomputer has a memory of 3.4 petabytes with a maximum speed of 1.33 quadrillion FLOPS.[1] The hardware takes up a total area of 33 m2.[2] Taiwania 2 has a maximum speed of 9 PFLOPS.
The Taiwania 2 supercomputer is a follow on to the Taiwania supercomputer designed by the National Center for High-Performance Computing.[3] Taiwania 2 debuted at 20 on the November 2018 TOP500 and 10 on the Green500.[4]
Taiwania 2 has a computing capacity of 9 quadrillion floating-point operations per second (9 PetaFLOPS, or 9 PFLOPS). Its hardware consists of 252 nodes, each of which contains two Intel Xeon Gold CPUs and eight NVIDIA V100 GPUs. It runs the CentOS operating system.[5]
See main article: Taiwania 3. Taiwania 3 is one of the supercomputers made by Taiwan.[6] [4] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] and also the newest one (August, 2021). It is placed in the National Center for High-performance Computing[15] of NARLabs. There are 50,400 cores in total with 900 nodes,[16] [14] using Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU)[17] and using CentOS as Operating System.[18] It is an open access for public supercomputer.[19] [20] It is currently open access to scientists and more to do specific research after get permission from Taiwan's National Center for High-performance Computing.[21] [22] [14] [23] This is the third supercomputer of the Taiwania series. It uses CentOS x86_64 7.8 as its system operator and Slurm Workload Manager as workflow manager to ensure better performance. Taiwania 3 uses InfiniBand HDR100 100 Gbit/s high speed Internet connection to ensure better performance of the supercomputer. The main memory capability is 192 GB. There's currently two Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU) inside each node. The full calculation capability is 2.7PFLOPS.[24] It is launched into operation in November 2020 before schedule due to the needed for COVID-19.[22] [25] It is currently ranked number 227 on Top 500 list of June, 2021[18] and number 80 on Green 500 list.[26] It is manufactured by Quanta Computer, Taiwan Fixed Network, and ASUS Cloud.[18] [21] [27] [28] [29]
